Digital Printing-Wide Format - Hybrid

Agfa Graphics adds Kevin Lasier and Gary Tolley as new Wide-Format Account Managers.

It’s no surprise to see wide-format shops attracting their fair share of attention in the M&A marketplace. We’ve represented a number of them as sellers in transactions this year, and they make an interesting contrast with our commercial printing and packaging clients.

No one predicted that wide-format inkjet would open a new market for printers for signage, vehicle wraps, building wraps, back drops, and more. Go back and look. The first wide-format printers were introduced as proofers for color printing. As Benny Landa has said: anything that can go digital will go digital. That is why the growth markets are packaging and new media — and by media I mean new substrates.

An EFI VUTEk HS125 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed inkjet press has been added at Imagine! Express.

For the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2016, EFI reported record third quarter revenue of $245.6 million, up 7%.

GPA called Graph Expo 16 an overwhelmingly successful show. The company reports 12% more booth visitors than in 2015.

Many commercial printers are already embracing applications like POP/signs, window graphics, and decals.

What follows is a detailed breakdown of factors affecting ROI to help the buyer select a wide-format printer.

In the next episode of Lifetime’s Emmy-nominated “Project Runway,” Kornit Digital’s Kornit Allegro, will play a critical role.

When the time came for Gilson Graphics to upgrade its offerings, the company made several new technology purchases from EFI.